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Today, on almost every front page of a newspaper, from small towns in Arkansas to the biggest cities in the nation, same-sex couples are featured prominently, and headlines report that the United States Supreme Court has struck down bans on marriage between same-sex couples.

While a student at Harvard Law School, Freedom to Marry founder and President Evan Wolfson wrote one of the earliest - and still today, most influential - cases for why the freedom to marry is important and how winning marriage for same-sex couples will signal a broader path to equality for gay and lesbian Americans.

Today, Tuesday, July 21, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that international law requires legal protection for same-sex couples in all countries across the continent that have signed on to the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Supreme Court ruling striking down marriage bans nationwide on June 26 was perfectly timed with the release of Love is Love, the photo book compilation of Mitch and Shalem's national roadtrip to catalog photos of same-sex couples.

On Thursday, July 9, 2015, Freedom to Marry stood with one thousand of our friends, champions, supporters, and other movement leaders for our Freedom to Marry Celebration, a "going-out-of-business" party to reflect on the historic Supreme Court marriage ruling that brought the freedom to marry nationwide, once and for all.

Tonight, Thursday, July 9, Freedom to Marry will host a Celebration Event in response to the United States Supreme Court's historic ruling last month that brought the freedom to marry to the entire nation, effectively representing the culmination of Freedom to Marry's work as an organization.

Tomorrow, Thursday, July 9, Freedom to Marry will host a special event celebrating the monumental and historic United States Supreme Court ruling last month that brought the freedom to marry to the entire nation.

On Friday, July 3, Evan Wolfson joined activists at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for a panel 50 years after protesters in Philadelphia first fought for LGBT rights at Independence Hall.

Freedom to Marry was the campaign to win marriage nationwide. With the Supreme Court victory on June 26, 2015, the work of this strategic campaign – though not the larger movement – was achieved, and Freedom to Marry wound down its operations, closing in early 2016. For inquiries, please email legacy@freedomtomarry.org.